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Gadget
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I've had a good look at the Map, Steve, and can't find it. it could be related to the crofting or before that the lotting system 
Try some of the info/gazeteers here:
http://scotlandsfamily.com/
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I'm reading this thread with interest - it's fascinating! I haven't got any clues at all to the meaning of the writing, sorry. I did look up Masonic codes, on Gadget's suggestion, but only really came up with a cipher that doesn't look anything like this example
There were lots of forms of shorthand, code, and cipher used pre-20th century, I know it was pretty popular at one time to write using such things (Samuel Pepys used a form of shorthand for his diaries). I suppose people could have made up their own, personal, forms too.
By the way, I think that the photo (from what I can see anyway) is more likely 1890s than 1870s.  Not sure whether that makes a blind bit of difference!
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I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) BIGG (Kent) BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) BRISBANE (Fife) DANKS (STS) DOBSON (BRK) FRANCIS (ESS) GOODE (HAM) HAYNES (Cork) INGRAM (MDX, SOM) LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Inverness) MORRISH (LND) NANCARROW (CON) OGILVIE (Moray, LND) STRATHDEE (Banff) SWAN (Fife) WOOD (LND)
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This link may be of interest, it gives examples of the Pitman code of shorthand.
http://pitmanshorthand.homestead.com/BasicsofPitman.html
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Colgan, Scott, Templeton in Northern Antrim
Colgan in Saskatchewan, Canada
Durrant in Herts & Middlesex
Ford,Smith in Hammersmith, Fulham, Brentford
Whiting in Berkshire
Weller in Sussex and London
Walker in the 24th of Foot, (Canada, Ireland, India and South Africa) and London
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I was looking at the Scottish Handwriting site and couldn't draw too many parallels with any old hand such as secretary. The examples are a lot tighter than this open lettering.
But I did see a page about "j" as part of numerals...
http://www.scottishhandwriting.com/cmNul.asp
Problem is this all pre dates photography by a 100 years or so!
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All census look up transcriptions are Crown Copyright~~~~~~~~~~~ Dumfrieshire: Fallen, Fallon, Carruthers, Scott, Farish, Aitchison, Green, Ryecroft, Thomson, Stewart Midlothian: Linn/d, Aitken, Martin North Wales: Robins(on), Hughes, Parry, Jones Cumberland: Lowther, Young, Steward, Miller Somerset: Palmer, Cork, Greedy, Clothier http://fallon.rootschat.net
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PrueM
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LOL  Annie!!!
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I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) BIGG (Kent) BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) BRISBANE (Fife) DANKS (STS) DOBSON (BRK) FRANCIS (ESS) GOODE (HAM) HAYNES (Cork) INGRAM (MDX, SOM) LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Inverness) MORRISH (LND) NANCARROW (CON) OGILVIE (Moray, LND) STRATHDEE (Banff) SWAN (Fife) WOOD (LND)
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Gadget
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Have you tried standing on your head yet - or maybe it's that way up in the southern hemisphere
Marjory was b,. circa 1848-50 in Applecross - see other thread
I'm wondering if it could have been someone just practising writing on the nearest bit of card. I've got lots of funnies in the Family Bible Alternatively, just an offspring trying to copy 'grown up' writing
OR - a left hander
Gadget - a lefty
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I'm a left hander too (we artisitc types  ) , but have never seen anything like it. But it's justified (each line starts at) to the right, not the left, which adds credence to Gadet's theory.
But then "bible" would be wrong....
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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PrueM
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I'm wondering if it could have been someone just practising writing on the nearest bit of card. I've got lots of funnies in the Family Bible Alternatively, just an offspring trying to copy 'grown up' writing
Cal241 and I were very excited about some writing (perfectly legible, but meaningless) on the back of a photo of an unidentified rellie - until I posted it on rootschat, and it turned out to refer to a horse running in a race at Newmarket
Obviously the photo of g-g-g-g-grandad (or whoever it was) was sitting next to the telephone or something while grandma was talking to the bookie!
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Paper and Photograph Conservator
I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) BIGG (Kent) BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) BRISBANE (Fife) DANKS (STS) DOBSON (BRK) FRANCIS (ESS) GOODE (HAM) HAYNES (Cork) INGRAM (MDX, SOM) LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Inverness) MORRISH (LND) NANCARROW (CON) OGILVIE (Moray, LND) STRATHDEE (Banff) SWAN (Fife) WOOD (LND)
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